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crochet the length of the bag. The bag from which this pattern was taken was of olive green plush lined with satin of the same color, the crochet was worked in gold spangled thread, and the balls were of Hamburgh work in two shades of olive green, but the effect of the crochet would be very good if done in very fine seine twine, or coarse écru linen thread. A very pretty tidy could be made of fine seine twine crocheted after this pattern and arranged as in the bag, colored ribbon being run through the open work. The ends should be finished with a tied in fringe.

HAIRPIN WORK OR CROCHET GIMP.

This is worked over a fork shaped like a large

Fig. 110.

hairpin. It should be made of stout wire, copper being preferable. For narrow work, one of the pins used for crimping the hair would do, but for some patterns it is desirable to have a wider fork. The gimp is very useful for making various handsome edgings being crocheted into different patterns after the manner of mignardise braid. Pretty breakfast caps can be made of lengths worked from the following pattern and sewed together, one length being sewed around as a border. Make a slip-loop, pass it over one